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Arsenal 3 Watford 0: Henry proves class apart

All too easily, and at times almost casually, Arsenal brushed aside a Watford team who are still looking for their first win. The margin would have been substantially greater were it not for a coruscating performance in the Watford goal by the admirable Ben Foster.

Time and again he frustrated an Arsenal team who, so often set in motion by the adroit Cesc Fabregas, created chances in abundance.

“If we’d taken our chances early on,” said Watford manager, Adie Boothroyd, “it may have been a different game.” It did, in fact, seem a very different game than that to a neutral observer. Insofar as Watford lamentably threw away a sliced Tommy Smith effort, the only real chance they made in the first half. Only when three down did they spark into life, forcing three saves from Arsenal’s Jens Lehmann in the closing minutes.